The Email – Part 2
Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.
Also, not from an Email
I heard this analogy from an audio from Holton Buggs, I think, he said, “if you think you found a gold mine somewhere, wouldn’t you tell your family or closest friends about it first?” Yeah, you can tell them, but would they believe you? Most would say, “Prove it to me first.” Now, in hindsight, I look at the things I have done in my life that posed as challenges. (Encouragement would have been better). So, if they say, I can’t do it or accomplish it, I’d say on the inside, “Watch me, I’ll figure it out”. So I don’t just surprise them, I even surprise myself. I finished college, worked through it in 6 years. And then five years later, I decided to go to graduate school and I also finished my master’s degree, worked through it in 2 years (while raising a family) – my master’s degree more than doubled my income then, as I was able to provide for my family – sole breadwinner. I migrated to another country and had to start from scratch. (I’ll blog about that someday). Ten years later, I recognized there was a learning gap on a field I was interested in for personal reasons, so I finished a one year program in eight months. Sadly, NOBODY had faith in me that I could juggle all that, and I did. Yes, I got challenged, I set goals and I accomplished them, so what? Did it do anything to my bank account? THAT is the bottom line.
I sent that email.
That is why when I saw this Empower Network Business model? Yes, I know it will work for those who will WORK IT. So I sent that email. I finished my bachelor’s degree and it didn’t lay out a step by step guideline on how to put money in my bank account like this system and modality explains. That’s what we all need. I have an MBA but there is now that other vehicle called the “Internet” and a new module to learn called internet marketing. Now in hindsight, what do some professors know about the actual day to day of life, when all they teach are theories? They are okay with what they do and okay with their pay grade, and good for them. The vast majority though look for more. And all scammers know this – they take advantage of an obvious need of the vast majority. But you can’t call a business a scam until you can say that with certainty – because you have been IN it. What else can they do to supplement their income? Times constantly evolve. I have been, in another career, involved in scientific market research – doing the “grunt” work of offline marketing conducting actual market surveys and was surrounded by like-minded individuals involved in research (I had a colleague who diversified into anthropology, and while I surveyed people, she surveyed the fish population and would actually go scuba diving – deep into the waters and stay there for hours and document the behavior of fish). In my recent post-graduate studies, in one of my courses on epidemiology (the study of disease in populations), I’ve learned about how much things have changed, but how basic principles and understanding those foundations have been “automated” to make things faster. Who made those things possible? Scientists in collaboration with I.T. people.
In biostatistics, we all have to know the formulas and calculate EVERYTHING by hand AT FIRST, some of the examinations were only 10 questions, but the answer for each item would fill about 12 to 15 pages of calculations written by hand – the training is so that your brain knows how you should arrive at your final answers, know the logic behind the formula, so that when you are actually faced with all of these numbers, and you find an error somewhere, you could track back through your calculations and see where you went wrong. And then now imagine converting that foundational knowledge into software. I.T. people. Who runs the internet? I.T. People.
One comment I got was, “did you write that email, or did someone write it for you?”. Huh? Why? What did you think of the email? “like a copywriter wrote it – I ended up going to that Empower Network website to check it out!” I just about laughed right out loud. And so I said “yes I wrote it”, because I did, and I advised him, “no, don’t sign up, you got to be 100% with your decision and think about it if you need to, don’t base your decision on what I have to say. You have to make it your own decision. I just wanted to let you know that “it’s there when you are ready.” like it was there when I decided to go into it.
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